The Sea Captain

Fall from Grace. From sun tanned hero to zero the unthinkable happen, the captain on a 14 story liner hit a rock. Her captain lost his marbles, didn’t know what to do next, shell chocked his world and dreams had come to an abrupt end. What followed show us a man not in charge of his own faculties, he went down to the bar and ordered a drink, this while the crew was putting on life belts ready to leave the ship. Eventually the master walked on deck more like a zombie without the faintest idea of what to do next. Since he didn’t know what to do and the ship was listing he joined a life boat, ashore it worried him that his socks were wet, he might catch a cold. Is that an action of a sane man? All he wanted to do thereafter was to go home go to sleep, wake up next morning and it all had been a bad dream. It was not. When command was expected of him, he failed and will never sail on a ship again. In Italy people are ashamed of him it is like he has let them down. How lucky we are that few of us are called upon to do the right thing in time of adversity.